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Re:Wikipedians are rebelling against “unethical” Wikipedia f... by nix23 on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @12:03PM (#33611839)
Copyright protected work can only be lend for one person at the time.

>If people worked long and hard on something, they deserve the right to prevent it from being given away for free.

So FreeSoftware/OSS people don't work hard?

I think Ricard Stallman made a really good presentation why today's copyright is unfair for small authors but really good for the "harry potter".

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Re:Wikipedians are rebelling against “unethical” Wikipedia f... by tsegers on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @12:20PM (#33612126)
> So FreeSoftware/OSS people don't work hard?

That's not a fair conclusion from the parent comment at all. Software developers _do_ have the right to prevent their work from being given away for free. Them _choosing_ to develop FOSS is them voluntarily waiving that right.

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Re:Wikipedians are rebelling against “unethical” Wikipedia f... by nix23 on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @03:06PM (#33614293)
And most of the small authors think that copyright should not be longer then 5 years, the only one's against it are the big publishers, so as a small author you cannot choose if you want at least a bit money.

But yeah its not a completely fair comparison.

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Re:Wikipedians are rebelling against “unethical” Wikipedia f... by xhkkffbf on Thursday November 17, 2022 @11:13AM (#33641006)
The GPL is not waiving that right. It's attaching a condition that any improvements must also be distributed too. So that's not free as in beer.
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